Katee Woods examines a derelict site near Tottenham Court Road and comes to some surprisingly Freudian conclusions about the lost civilisation she finds there.
Emerging from the derelict remains of the old Odeon site,
Artangel’s latest commission Dig is
presented as an archaeological excavation, unearthing hundreds of culturally diverse
statues of human-like form. The arrangement of limbs and partial body parts is both
museum-like and reminiscent of a butcher’s shop, yet without the context of the
larger sculpture (that is to assume these are parts of a whole), these cuts of
meat often remain unidentifiable. This sense of mystery and the unknown
pervades throughout the exhibition.
